Full game leaderboard - but no full game runs!
5 years ago
United States

Hi all,

I was looking at the leaderboard and noticed that there was no full game (from pressing Start through completing MSQ: The Ultimate Weapon for ARR, or MSQ: Before the Dawn for the patchline / start of HW) speedrun!

I haven't seen the speedrun rules adapted to an MMO in looking around the web, but I think most of them would translate easily. I'd like to propose the following to accommodate treating FFXIV MMO aspects as a marathon and see what you all thought:

Mark whether cutscenes in Westwind / Praetorium / Castrum Meridianum are currently unskippable (~1.5hrs delta)

  • Option A - Marathon

  • Option B - Allow randos in the DF

  • Option C - Allow swapping players

  • All members need to start from level 1 at the same time ("clock starts when pressing start at the start screen")

  • Only a fresh toon; appearance can be saved in advance Allowed account buffs:

    • Road to 60 server
    • FC buffs
    • Silver Feathers
    • Mailed items
    • Food / meds / etc from the normal game Disallowed help:
    • No handouts ("Oh, here's 1,000,000 gil")
    • No jump potions
    • No buying gear above equippable at level 1
    • No undersized from non-included people
    • No mounts from non-included people (shouldn't get the speed bonus until you unlock it)
  • The same physical player per PC, no swapping

  • No toons made ahead of time (but saved appearances are ok)

  • No modified clients / botting

Questions:

  1. Is it ok to exchange gil to other players for vendor-available gear?
  2. How are we with gear bought on the marketboard?
Québec

there was a discussion for a full ARR MSQ category, it will be added tommorow when im done with work.

https://www.speedrun.com/ffxiv/thread/jad1a <- original thread.

United States

Thanks for the link, didn't see this! Updating https://14quick.org with this thread

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